Luna Lovegood can see the future.

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Mandy:
>Very interesting and it occurred to me while reading your post that 
> another reason she may not to tell anyone is because of the way 
Seers 
> and practioners of Divination are treated in the WW.  Only those of 
> exceptional ability and have been able to prove that ability are 
> treated with any kind of respect.  I'm sure that if the teenage 
> daughter of the publisher of the Quibbler started to claim she 
could 
> see the future, she would be laughed out of the room.  
> 

 Well, Luna also believes in a  lot of tosh nobody else would. Like 
those crumplehorned thingies and heliopaths etc. So if she is a seer 
we'd have to accept all those things also. And if she starts seing 
future and knows it, I think it would not have been concealed or 
hidden from others. Thats exactly the kind of thing that Quibbler 
would go for. She would have been ardently admired by her mag's loyal 
readership and I would say many of Hogwarts students  wold too.( 
lavender  and Parvati, for example).
  Her character is best explained by her character alone. I mean she 
is one those original people who are not interested in mundane 
everyday reality but  spend lives believing in ufos and other 
conspiracies..after all magic is magical to us muggles  but it would 
be mundane to those inhabiting the magical world.
 As for Ron, I think she was impressed by Ron's wit than anything 
else. I think she will play a large role in future but this is not it.
spangb